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Publication in the community "Montenegro"

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The causes of prostitution in Montenegro

Montenegrin media again turn to the current topic of prostitution. In particular, Dan-online tells that in Montenegro, the number of women involved in the criminal sex industry is reduced in the event that the economy of the state develops and women have more opportunities for implementation.

Director of NGO "Montenegrin Women's Lobby" (CŽL) Aida Petrovich says that it is not known how many women are engaged in prostitution in Montenegro. It is assumed that the sex industry is most developed in the Bar and Podgorica. It is known that 13-year-old girls are involved in prostitution and this is an alarming trend.

It should be noted that according to the Institute of Public Health, which conducted the study Risk behavior and the prevalence of HIV infection among sex workers in Podgorica and other cities, in which 209 prostitutes participated, in Montenegro, the number of prostitutes is measured in hundreds.

Women who are forced to engage in street prostitution are often victims of violence. Their earnings in this case is from five to several tens of euros. Girls who fall into the world of prostitution at an early age, often can not break out of it because they are addicted to drugs. Sometimes pimps forcibly inject heroin into the girls. But in Montenegro, drugs are not the main cause of prostitution, but poverty.

Among the causes of prostitution in Montenegro is also violence and incest. At the same time, sex workers can not count on police help, since contacting law enforcement with such problems is considered humiliating.

According to the CŽL, prostitution is thriving on the coast of Montenegro, especially in the summer. There are cases when women leave families and come to the coast in the summer to work during the day in boutiques, cafes, but in the evening they provide sexual services.

The women rights organizations consider that the entry of Montenegro into friendly military-political alliances can increase the number of local women involved in the sex industry and the influx of a large number of sex workers from other countries. Human rights activists refer to information in the Croatian media, which reported that with the appearance of an American aircraft carrier near Split, there are more prostitutes in the city.

In August, CDM reported that Operation Pink 3 was being carried out in Montenegro, during which suspected pimps from Loznica, Mostar and Bar were arrested. In Kotor, Zelka Rolovich, suspected of organizing prostitution, was taken into custody. She used young girls to provide sex services in villas, hotels, yachts.

Recall also that in 2013 police during Operation Porto in Kotor arrested some Mileva Kilibard and Sekhad Medunyanin, who organized a network of elite "yacht prostitution" on the coast of Montenegro. Criminals involved in their network girls from Tivat and Kotor, as well as a citizen of Serbia, whose services were used by wealthy entrepreneurs from different countries, including outside the Adriatic.

Evgeny Novozhilov

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